The Bozeman courier., January 07, 1927, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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T. H. Sean, Basin«*
W, W. Casper, Manafinf Editor
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THE BOZEMAN COURIER!
Established 1871
Official Paper of Gallatin County—Phone 80 %
Published Every Friday Morning: at 43 West Main Street, Bozeman, Montana
r -"IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY"-
By*
THE REPUBLICAN COURIER COMPANY
Entered in the Postoffice at Bozeman,
Montana, as Second Class Matter un
der the Act of March 3, 1879.
Advertising rates on application. Sub
scription rate, $2.00 a year, payable in
advance. Single copies, 6 cents.
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"SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW"
Under this heading the Belgrade Journal of
December 30 made a bitter and unjustified attack
upon George Darlinton, retired member of Gal
latin's board of county commissioners, and his
Republican colleagues.
The Journal charged, in short, that the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railway's recent announce
ment of a change of base from Three Forks to
Sales ville for its Yellowstone Park bus service
was due to the fact that the 1926 board of county
commissioners, of which Mr. Darlinton was chair
man, had refused to accept an offer of that road
to aid in graveling the Jackrabbit boulevard be
tween Belgrade and Bozeman Hot Springs.
It further asserted that through this alleged
refusal Gallatin county "lost thousands of dollars
worth of good material that could have been
secured for the taking, an irreparable damage
that can never be excused,
fat reaction been ruling county affairs," the
Journal continued, "this piece of work would have
been completed and the Milwaukee buses would
still be coming through Manhattan and Belgrade
from Three Forks to the west entrance of Yellow
stone Park.
Besides the vindictive and uncalled for personal
aspersions it contains, the Belgrade Journal's edi
torial calls for criticism on two important points:
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First, it is not true.
Second, it is absurd.
Both of these points are so thoroughly explain
ed in the following letter from Mr. Darlinton, who
is now in Helena serving as one of Gallatin coun
ty's representatives in the general assembly, that
it is unnecessary for us to discuss them. Mr.
Darlinton's letter, which we take pleasure in pub
lishing, follows:
Editor of the Republican Courier, Bozeman,
Montana.
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•'Dear sir: In a recent issue of the Belgrade
Journal appears an article entitled 'So The People
May Know,' from which I gather that the editor
of that valuable publication does not like me, and
wishes to criticise me personally as well as my
record as a public official. There is no disposi
tion on my part to deny the gentleman's right to
do this, and if he would confine himself to the
truth he might say anything about me personally
that he pleased. - As for my public record, the
people of Gallatin county know it and they alone
shall be the judges.
However, in this article he not only attacks
me personally but casts aspersions upon the
actions of my former colleagues and friends, Mr.
John H. Aakjer and Mr. Frank L. Benepe, Jr.
For these reasons, Mr. Editor, I ask space in your
paper to reply to the charges made by the Bel
grade editor.
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In his article he states 'that the Milwaukee
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road had offered to furnish all the crushed gravel
necessary for surfacing the Jackrabbit boulevard,
at both ends of'the road, and the county com
missioners flatly turned them down.'
Either the gentleman has been grossly mis
informed, or he is guilty of a deliberate and mali
cious mis-statement of facts. It is true that
some of the Milwaukee officials met the board
* last summer relative to improving the Jackrabbit
boulevard, and asked what the county would do
toward surfacing this road if the Milwaukee
would furnish the so-colled Tarkio shale at Bel
grade and Bozeman Hot Springs. The board in
formed them that the great length of haul would
make it expensive, and suggested that it would
be cheaper for all concerned for them to put up
a crusher at convenient points along the road
from which gravel could be hauled for much less
money. . J
"This arrangement seemed to meet with their
approval, and they asked us to make them a de
finite offer, which was accordingly done. The
offer was as follows : That if the Milwaukee
would cru^Ji the gravel, the county would prepare
the road bed and haul and spread the gravel. The
Milwaukee officials agreed to take the matter up
with their company and recommend that it co
operate with the county. All arrangements had
been made by the county to do this work before
the next tourist season, if the railroad would co
operate. That is the whole truth about the matter
from start to finish. There was no disposition on
the part of any member of the board to do any
thing but encourage the project* and co-operate
with the railroad.
As to his charge tlyit the inaction and lack of
business sense of the board induced the Milwaukee
É to run the buses out of Salesville instead of Three
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Forks—it is merely childish. If it were so, the
commissioners should indeed feel flattered that
their actions could dictate the polities of one of
the greatest railway systems on earth.
"Thanking you in advance for the space in your
valuable paper, I am,
Very truly yours,
(Signed) "G. W. Darlinton.
All we need add is that Mr. Darlinton's state
ments are corroborated by the record of the pro
ceedings of the board. Thus one more of the
Belgrade Journal's well known "stink bomb" at
tacks is dissipated by a blast of truth.
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PHILADELPHIA LEA
(From the Dearborn Independent)
With the closing of the year, one of the most
pitiful failures in the history of the cqpntry pas
sed into the limbo of regretted memory. The
Sesqui-Centennial celebration should have been
the most solemn and impressive observance the
nation has ever known. Instead, it was a colossal
and dismal flop. Its cost to Philadelphia in loss
of prestige has been enormous; its actual mone
tary cost staggering. Payments from the muni
cipal treasury are placed at $18,000,000; addi
tional expenditures made by various city depart
ments add considerably to the total ; "participation
certificates," sold to the public to the amount of
$3,000,000, appear worthless, and the exposition
still faces a deficit of $5,200,000!
The failure is due largely to the submersion of
the patriotic motif to the commercial. An at
tempt was made to cash in on the nation's
reverence for its past, and the attempt collapsed.
A truly patriotic celebration would have had the
wholehearted support of the entire country; this
one did not.
Amazing mismanagement marked the exposi
ipleasant
tion almost from its inception
rumors of sub rosa real
the air when a mosquito-infested s'
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committee chairman, a scandal which resulted in
the withdrawl of many exhibitors. Officials
a more mature tone; there were many things
worth seeing. But the people by this time were
distrustful. Less than 5,000,000 of the predicted
50,000,000 patrons passed through the exposition
gates. And now the exposition has ended in a
grand explosion of graft charges,
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from the center of the city's activities wits chosen
as the site. With the fair still in eiibryo, a
scandal broke around the head of the concessions
blundered again in opening the exposition before
the grounds were ready, the exhibits installed.
Subservience to the concessions holders served
only to increase the general suspicion. By the
end of the summer the exposition had taken on
For Philadelphians the nation can feel truly
sorry. Without question the majority of citizens
wanted a commemoration worthy of those momen
tous events which transpired in Independence hall
a century and a half ago. But Philadelphians
failed because they allowed a certain class of men
to attempt to turn patriotism into profit. It has
been a costly lesson, but if through it the citizens
of Philadelphia learn that these men cannot be
trusted with civic leadership, it may in the end
prove profitable.
the United States from the communist centers
against the sketchy military training, mostly
fined to the physical exercise of drill, calesthenics
COMMUNIST MILITARY TRAINING
(From the St, Paul Pioneer Press)
Russian schools and universities now require,
under a new ruling by the soviet, that male stud
ents take 186 hours of instruction in military
science in the four-year course and follow that
up with their choice of one year in the navy or
nine months in the army, in active training.
Considering the wild protests that arose in
con
and marches, required by the federal government
of students in land-grant colleges, the situation
of the* soviet sympathizers in opposing militarism
is at once ridiculous and pathetic. The base on
which they stood, fortified by the faith that the
soviet could do no wrong and the American re
public could do no right, has shifted evasively
from beneath their feet.
It will be necessary now for the communists
here to become ardently militaristic and to insist
on military education in all state universities and
colleges and even for a year's active training in
navy or army afterwords. Else they become
as sign posts on the highways, which", point the
road but never travel it themselves.
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CONDENSED REPORT OF
The Commercial National Bank
of Bozeman, Montana
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1926
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts..
Call Loans on New York and San Francisco with Collateral
Bonds and Warrants .:...
United States Bonds .
Bank Building .
Cash and Exchange .:.
v.
.$. 1,385,879.48
.150,000.00
. 507,729.35
99,900.00
300,000.00
. 763,266.15
$3,206,774.98
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock .
• Surplus and Profits
Dividends Unpaid ...
Circulation .
Deposits .
$ 150,000.00
292,863.61
22,500.00
62,500.00
. 2,678,911.37
$3,206,774.98
DIRECTORS:
George Cox
Chas. Vandenhook
R. S. Dawes
John Walsh
J. H. Baker
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By National Pres
WASHINGTON, D.
people of the Capital city have now j
given themselves over unreservedly
to presidential political talk. It is
the chief topic of conversation wher
ever two or more politicians and their
better halves gather together. It is
of first 'importance even with the
bureau and department chiefs down
to the lowliest and newest stenog
rapher on the payrolls. In their de
fense, however, it should be said that
the business of being next, it not to
the throw e at least to the heir appar
ent or the logical successor, is
garded by the employees as a bread
and butter topic. One can hardly
turn a corner of a downtown street
without bumping into confidential
whispers about the Lpwden, the
Dawes or Hoover booms on the Re
publican side and the Smith, Mc
Adoo, Reed and Donahey Democratic
booms. Meanwhile ignoring all of it,
the one man whom they are all anx
ious to hear from, the president, re
mains absolutely quiet and seems to
enjoy it. Of course, as one man said
in a somewhat sour-faced way, Mr.
Coolidge is so adept in keeping quiet
that he is able to do it now without
an effort. *
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WASHNIGTON,- D. C.—The Amer
ican people alone, are entitled to de
termine what shall be the size of
their army and navy.
Coolidge in all his messages to con
gress and in his public addresses has
made it plain that we are not only
entitled to a force sufficient to de
fend our territory at home and to pro
tect our interests abroad, but that we
are under no obligations to apologize
to any foreign nation for the money
which we spend to accomplish this
end.
President
Back of all this the president feels
the people of th« country as a whole,
while willing to provide a big stick
for Uncle Sam, are distinctly op
posed to making it so large that it
will invite suspicion and distrust
among our neighbors or so heavy
that it will tire the backs of the tax
payers who have, to pay for it.
He also feels that we have many
more useful needs for our national re
sources than building warships or
cruisers or recruiting armies in ex
cess of our actual national needs.
Whether we like to admit it or not
the size of our military forces on
land or sea is based of necessity on
the total of the possible military or
naval forces possessed by those with
whom we may have to cope. There
fore, sane and yet safe military re
duction is possible anly if reductions
in equal ratio are registered in the
combative forces of foreign nations.
That is why the president has so
repeatedly endorsed the activities of
the disarmament conference. That is
why he is anxious for the holding cf
second conference. And because
cannot advance on such a gath
a
one
ering with a sword
welcome delegates h<& has taken the
in one hand to
position with congress that this is a
poor time to build new war vessels,
A call for disarmament while we
are placing additional pistols in our
holsters inevitably must react against
the success of a real disarmament
program. Yet it must be made plain
at the same time 'that if we have
empty holsters it is because we have
deliberately determined to keep them
empty and not because we lack the
ability to secure the additional arms
if ws so desire.
This in brief can be taken as an
explanation of how it happens that
the president who is objecting to the
immediate building of three new
cruisers is ready to approve the plans
for the construction of 10 new war
ships for which an appropriation can
be had the moment it is desired. In
short if a disarmament conference is
held we will with his program be
able to enter such a session with
proof of our honest desire for dis
armament, and at the same time we
will be serving notice that if compet
itive armament is to continue, we
will piÿ not three, but 13 boats on
the stocks in short order. The presi
dent in this case is not only holding
good cards, but he is showing skill
in playing them.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The people
of the Missouri Valley—the Kansas
City, Mo., Omaha, Nebraska and
Sioux City, Iowa, region—are hailing
with enthusiasm the accomplishment
of Senator Curtis in attaining an
objective for which he has worked
BOY HEALER
Eleven-year-old Abram George, In
dlan boy-healer, who it ia said has
already healed scores of people by
Maying on his hands." So great was
the press at one time during a meet
ing in Rochester, N. Y., that the boy
collapsed from exhaustion.
so hard—the acceptance by the sen
ate of an item in the Rivers and Har
bors Bill appropriating $12,000,000
for the improvement of the Upper
Missouri river from Sioux City, Iowa,
to Kansas City, Missouri.
This favorable action by the senate
on a measure which long has had the
active support of the commercial or
ganizations of the Missouri valley,
has created considerable enthusiasm
throughout the country—especially in
sections of the Middle West where
river navigation is an article of eco
nomic faith. The people of the Mid
dle West prairies believe in their
waterways and that a quickening of
industrial and agricultural life and
effort, and an easing of their trans
portation problems will come as a
response to river development.
Every farmer in the Missouri val
ley is interested to know if he may
yet see the old Missouri alive with ac
tivity and a carrier of his freight,
for he knows that day will herald
minimum freight rates.
While it is not expected that this
work will be finished and make tho
Upper Missouri navigable until after
the work on the Lower Missouri is
completed—i. e. the improvements in
the river's channel from Kansas City
to St. Louis, the action is hailed as a
great victory for Missouri valley de
velopment and a recognition of cho
needs of the Middle West; for it gets
started that which is of real economic
advantage to that section of the coun
try. The action becomes then a cer
tain precursor of improvements that
will make the operation of this great
national highway an economic factor
of importance in the prosperity of
the entire Mississippi watershed.
Much of the success of the measure
is du e to the untiring efforts of Sen
ator Curtis.
WASHINGTON, D. C.— The succor
that gives to those who come within
our gates from foreign lands, ex
tends its helping hand to those they
left behind. This year the records of
the United States post office depart
ment tell an interesting tale as re
gards savings.
Between Thanksgiving and Decem
ber 17, the department for the trans
mission of money by money order, is
sued 541,738 money orders to foreign
countries and involving an exchange
of $7,836,288.57. And more amazing
is the fact that this is an increase of
$1,018,154.65 over the money orders
issued to foreign countries for the
Christmas season of last year (1925).
(Great Britain of all the European
countries, shows a decrease.)
' The fact becomes the more signif
icant when w e realize that this
ey, the most of it, represents money
sent by the poorest class of laborers
and which they were able to spare
after taking care of themselves.
mon
England*8 Half in CitieM
Nearly half of England's 18,500,00$
people live In cities of more than 50,
000 population. The fact has been
given new attention as a result of tha
after-war employment problem which
confronted the country. Incidentally,
Durham Is the only English county is
which the men outnumber the
women
Shelby—Dakota-Montana oil com
pany brings in No. 19 well on Em
mons lease, with initial flow of 2,000
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